Open Water yesterday!
managed to win the 3km :D
and my time was considerably faster than last year's too, probably because it was my first time swimming in the sea last year.
i think experience is really important for open water swimming.
once you've got over the almost zero visibility in the water and the saltiness in your mouth, it's actually pretty alright.
the waves weren't that strong yesterday (not while i was swimming anw, thankfully) except when the annoying jet skis zoomed past and left behind terrible petrol fumes.
water was much cleaner too, at least i didn't bang into any floating logs, get tangled in seaweed or encountered any jellyfish.
heh.

swimming 3km in the sea doesnt feel very tiring, since you can't really go fast without risking being kicked by the masses of people you try to overtake.
you can't see them in the water until their feet are right in your face, and by then it's too late, so you have to keep lifting your head up to look for caps bobbing up and down, and then try and navigate through without deviating too far away from the lane rope.
but you certainly feel the effects of it the next day!
all the battling of the currents actually work your arm and shoulder muscles quite hard.
felt terrible at trng this morning, with achy shoulders and all and John had to give us a 7.4km set!
(not to mention another 7.1km set in the afternoon)
blah. at least it's dryland tmr yay :D

and today's leadership conference was a terrible waste of time!
okay so the Kouzes-Posner Student Leader Practices Inventory evaluation thing was rather enlightening, but the talks were terrible!
not that the guest speaker was lousy, but seriously, a 2.5 hr long talk is not what we need at 9 in the morning.
plus the PAC was freezing!
luckily i brought the blazer :D (meaning to return it but didn't in the end since we still need it for National Colours)
can't believe we'll have to sit through the same thing tmr!
from 9am-4pm.
goodness. maybe i should just pon hehe (:<

alright,
back to OP speech. blah ):

Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss-a-innocent sugar me, yeah
-Def Leppard!

(this song is awfully catchy! it's from Balls of Fury 8) )